somebody currently watching his HDV FORMAT timeline in composite?

[Luke Maslen]

Hi Francois,

I believe I answered you (or someone with a similar question) via email yesterday. Yes you can choose to monitor SD video in component or composite analog video when down converting from HD material in the HDV format to SD with DeckLink Macintosh 5.x drivers.

[Francois X] “is anybody capturing HDV directly in DVC HD Pro and treating it in this format ?”

You cannot capture HDV material via Firewire and have it automatically transcode in to the DVCPRO HD format. In fact, this would just lead to degradation of image quality. If you HDV device has HD-SDI output, you can capture this via any DeckLink HD series card and save in the DVCPRO HD format in real time. If your HDV device only has component analog output, you can use a Multibridge to convert this to HD-SDI which can then be captured via any DeckLink HD series card and save in the DVCPRO HD format in real time.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Beak]

I shot some HDV 720p30 with JVC’s HD100 today and captured it via firewire wire at that same setting. (720p30) Then I imported the clips into a blackmagic 10-bit timeline. Cranked up the chroma, Crushed the blacks and BAM I had some pretty good looking footage. Of course it had to be rendered but I guess if was really working on a project I would do all my editing in HDV then convert to blackmagic 10-bit. This may not be a the right workflow but today was my first HDV experience and its what I came up with. What are some other options for someone with G5 dual 2g and a decklink extreme card?

[Francois Xavier]

Beak, thank you for the live experience

anf Luke thank you for being patient with me

Documentary Director & Editor